Produced by Pixar Animation Studios, "WALL-E" premiered on June 27th, 2008 with a box office showing of $63,087,526. "WALL-E" consists of many different genres, including comedy, animation, science fiction, romance, adventure, and drama. Andrew Stanton, who has worked on many Pixar films, most notably "Finding Nemo", co-wrote this original story with another Pixar great Pete Docter, and Stanton directed the film himself.

The movie opens up to a dark scene, which is unusual for an animation film by Pixar. The Earth is polluted and empty, with the crumbling buildings of an ancient but modern civilization only overpowered by the rising skyscrapers of trash. The viewer gets a tour of the surroundings by following what looks to be the single moving thing left on Earth, a robot by the name of “WALL-E.” We soon learn that WALL-E is the robot responsible for cleaning up the Earth, and is the architect of the trash skyscrapers. These relics of the past show, through electronic billboards, vacant super-centers, and even giant ships, a society dominated by a single mega-corporation called Buy ‘n Large.

(Buy 'N Large Logo)

Humanity, as we soon find out, was sent on a five-year luxury star-liner cruise, named the Axiom, by Buy ‘n Large while their robots (WALL-E’s) cleaned up the planet. However, the people on board the star-liners are about to celebrate their 700th year of the cruise. Buy ‘n Large, quickly after starting their clean-up mission, realized the Earth was uninhabitable and abandoned their mission. Eventually all the robots broke down, well at least all except WALL-E. WALL-E, along with his pet cockroach, has been doing his job for 700 years; he has a curious fascination with the musical "Hello, Dolly!", loves to explore and collect various items, and most interestingly has developed a personality.

During one of his routine days WALL-E finds quite a special discovery, a small, fragile plant. Though he does not realize its’ significance, he gingerly places it in an old boot and brings it back to his home. Later on, a space shuttle lands on earth, almost destroying WALL-E in the process, and drops off a sleek, modern robot by the name of EVE. WALL-E quickly becomes infatuated with EVE, though she takes barely any notice to him for she is focused on her primary directive, to find plant life on Earth. After a long and tedious courtship, WALL-E finally interests EVE with his unique personality and through a set of extenuating circumstances brings her back to his “crib.” WALL-E, like any normal American male, tries to impress EVE through showing her the various items he had collected during his lifetime, including the plant. EVE, after seeing the plant, immediately takes hold of it, puts it inside of her, and shuts down her operating system.

WALL-E, confused by what had just happened to EVE, at first tries to wake her up through a variety of activities (including taking her out on a date, see picture below), and later goes through extraordinary lengths to take care of her motionless body. The space shuttle that had first dropped EVE off then lands to pick her up and, with WALL-E clinging fearlessly to the side, whisks them away into outer space. The audience is next given a visual treat, as Pixar’s animators beautifully depict the voyage through space to the Axiom.

Once they arrive on the Axiom, EVE is quickly whisked away into the cluttered highway of the ship with WALL-E tenuously following her. The ships passengers are shown as obese and inactive, having become completely reliant on the machines of the Axiom. The Captain is then shown as having become as reliant and delegates most of his responsibilities to the ship’s autopilot, AUTO. EVE, with WALL-E still following behind, is taken to the bridge of the ship and the Captain, at first confused on how to deal with her, presses a flashing green button. Shelby Forthwright, the CEO of Buy ‘N Large, appears telling the Captain that plant life has been found on Earth and instructs him to follow the operations manual in order to get the Axiom to return to Earth.

The Captain then reads that if the plant is placed into the holo-detector, the Axiom will hyper-jump to Earth. Unfortunately, when EVE is opened up to confirm the existence of the plant, she is empty. The Captain views this as a malfunction on her part and sends her to the repair ward to get looked at, and also sends WALL-E there to get cleaned. The Captain however develops a fascination with the way life use to be on Earth and researches everything from ho-downs to pizza. Through a series of chaotic events, WALL-E and EVE end up freeing the malfunctioning robots from the repair ward, witness a security robot attempting to destroy the plant, eventually rescue the plant, share a both metaphorically and physically electric kiss, and enjoy a victory dance around the ship.

(WALL-E and EVE's victory dance)

WALL-E and EVE return the plant to the Captain who, through watching EVE’s recordings of the Earth, decides it is their moral imperative to return and re colonize the devastated planet. Through these recordings, EVE becomes aware of WALL-E's dedication to her while she was inactive and her romantic feelings for him grow. AUTO however is following the directive A-113 that was given to him, which tells him humanity must stay in space because the Earth was believed to be uninhabitable, and takes control of the ship. AUTO throws the plant, EVE, and WALL-E down the garbage chute, knocking the robots unconscious. WALL-E becomes severely injured in the fall, with the only hope of reviving him being the parts that are in his home on Earth. EVE, in a role reversal from the beginning of the movie, takes care of WALL-E and escapes the waste chambers, but WALL-E becomes further injured in the process. At this point the Captain bravely takes the first steps ever under his own power and toddles towards AUTO, managing to deactivate him. Although the ship almost crashes, EVE manages to get the plant into the halo-detector with the help of both the robots and the passengers of the Axiom. The Axiom then returns to Earth, right in time for EVE to fly to WALL-E’s house to repair him.

EVE manages to repair WALL-E, but it seems as though his memory and personality have been erased. EVE, in one final effort, holds WALL-E’s hand and gives him another electric kiss, which jumpstart's WALLE-‘s memory and returns him to his old self. The movie ends with the robots happily together, working with the humans to rebuild their home.